(1) The Superiority of Capitalism over Communism/Socialism. — Dachshund
(2) The Myth of Gender Equality
(3) Race and Violent Crime
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(4) Islamic Terrorism
capitalist societies are better than communist ones. — Dachshund
The kind of vocational interest tests of the kind your high school guidance counsellor gave you were given to millions of people, and men and women give different answers to what they wanna do for a living, and how much time they wanna allocate to family versus career and so on. — Dachshund
(1) The Superiority of Capitalism over Communism/Socialism.
— Dachshund
Where has "the left" "rendered [this] more or less taboo and unmentionable"? — Michael
Why is skin color relevant to the problem of starvation if you don't mind me asking?The overwhelming majority of people who starve to death are non-white. — unenlightened
I don't know exactly, but what I do know is it has ( as Pinker suggests) become fashionable for students at many American universities to hoist Soviet era "Hammer and Sickle" banners on campus and paste or paint up revolutionary slogans from Mao Zedong's "Little Red Book". Why on earth would young people in the West do something as offensive and mindless as this? Where would American college kids get hold of such repulsive and deplorable political ideas , I wonder ?
What do you think? — Dachshund
that different ethnic groups commit crimes at different rates. You can go to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Look it up on their website. The homicide rate among African-American is about seven or eight times higher than it is among European Americans". — Dachshund
And terrorism, go to the Global Terrorist data base, and you find that worldwide the overwhelming majority of suicide terrorist attacks are committed by Islamic extremist groups". — Dachshund
It clearly seems at present to be a bigger ,more worrisome phenomenon than the presence of a small minority of students who are affiliated with hard right , neo-nazi, white nationalist/supremacist type organizations . — Dachshund
Pinker is one of those intellectuals who feel it necessary to provide an opinion on everything outside his main area of work, which, as a result, are usually jejune, uninteresting, or just plain wrong. — Maw
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